brain health

Our brain does not distinguish between imagined sights and sounds from real world sensory information.

Sleep deprivation of just one night can result in beta-amyloid – protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

A mother’s stress directly affects the brain development of her unborn child.

Scientists reveal how the brain suppresses chronic pain and prioritises hunger necessary for survival.

Women with a high-level of physical fitness in midlife were 90 percent less likely to develop dementia in later years.

Stress transmitted from one to another can cause changes in the brain the same way as real stress does.

Researchers show for the first time, using virtual reality, how the brain can map a landscape based on smell.

Schoolchildren exposed to green areas have larger volumes of white and grey brain matter associated with better cognitive function.

Researchers uncover that the brain finds it more rewarding to punish the wrongdoer than support the victim.

The same eye movement and neural activity take place when we recall an image as when we first saw that image.

An explosive brain network s responsible for the hypersensitivity experienced in fibromyalgia.

A brain region – the piriform complex stores olfactory long-term memories with the help of instructions from another brain region.